Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams has signed with talent and literary agency Cinetic Media, the company announced exclusively. Williams, who made history as the first African-American director to win an Academy Award (for his short film Music By Prudence), is a leading documentary and narrative filmmaker whose signing adds a high-profile name to Cinetic's client roster.

Williams's credits include Life, Animated (a Sundance Directing Award winner and Oscar nominee), God Loves Uganda, The Apollo, Netflix's Stamped From The Beginning, The 1619 Project and Apple TV+'s The Supermodels, alongside numerous Emmy and Peabody awards. His narrative feature debut, Cassandro, starring Gael García Bernal, premiered at Sundance in 2023 before release on Amazon Prime Video. He is currently working on the narrative feature Strange Arrivals, starring Demi Moore and Colman Domingo, and serves on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors representing the documentary branch.